Measured in a straight line from the centre of Edinburgh. That is a distance, not a journey. We know where each of these places is to within a few metres and we know nothing whatever about the roads, so this page will not tell you how long anything takes — and neither will any page that dresses a straight line up as “two hours away”.
Perthshire first, then the west coast, and then — awkwardly for the arithmetic — the Lake District, which a straight line puts nearer the Castle than much of the Highlands. The border is not a distance and the crow does not stop at it.
4 places, from Comrie Croft at about 40 miles out to Eagle Brae at about 115 miles.
about 40 miles from Edinburgh, in a straight line
near Crieff, Perthshire · Sleeps 2–6
Scotland's benchmark eco campsite: car-free woodland pitches you reach by wheelbarrow, campfires, Nordic katas for glamping, an on-site mountain-bike trail network with bike shop, and a farm café.
From £12 / adult a night
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about 90 miles from Edinburgh, in a straight line
Fort William · Sleeps 2–8
Camp directly below Ben Nevis on a 1,000-acre Highland estate, with an on-site restaurant and bar and the summit path nearby.
£ · Budget
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about 105 miles from Edinburgh, in a straight line
Cumbria
120 informal tent pitches directly beneath the Langdale Pikes, campfires allowed, a proper pub two minutes' walk away, and a near-year-round season.
From £12 / night
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about 115 miles from Edinburgh, in a straight line
Struy, Scottish Highlands · Sleeps 2–6
A hand-carved cedar log cabin village on a Highland hillside where red deer and eagles are the neighbours.
From £140 / night
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We take the coordinates on each published listing, measure the great-circle distance from a single point in Edinburgh to each of them, keep everything inside 125 miles and sort nearest first. Distances are rounded to the nearest five miles, because a city centre is a convention rather than a coordinate and the second decimal place would be pretending otherwise.
84 of the 85 published listings carry coordinates. The one that does not cannot appear here at all — a place with no pin has no distance, and estimating one from its county would be an invention.
Only cities with three or more places inside 125 miles get a page — the same floor the collections keep. Or ignore geography and filter all 85 places instead.